Vintage Hairstyles Books

Stage and Screen Hairstyles
Shows hair stylists and anyone interested in vintage fashion exactly how to recreate the looks of the past. From ancient
times to modern days, the hairstyles that defined their eras. Detailed instructions and step-by-step photographs make this
book valuable for professionals in film, television, theater, and fashion, as well as everyone who wants a unique
hairstyle.
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Creative Hairshaping and Hairstyling You Can Do
First published in 1947, this unique hair styling book shows how to roll, wave and curl your way to
stunning 1940s hairstyles! The author was a hairdressing professional and created the book with detailed instructions and more than
200 illustrations of the techniques used to do hair in the 1940s. An interesting textbook for beauty
schools, professional hair stylists and average women wanting to do their own styling.
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Art of Finger Waving - Recreating Vintage 1920s and 1930s Hairstyles
First printed in 1930, this book contains very detailed illustrations and instructions for recreating the attractive
short and long hair finger wave styles of the 1920s and the 1930s. Finger waving is shaping the hair while wet into s-shaped
ondulations using the fingers and a comb. You will learn this waving technique as well as creating the 3 types of swirls to use, based
on the hair type of the model.
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Technique and Art of Marcel Waving
Illustrations explain how to create 15 hairdos including the straight back marcel wave, horseshoe
wave, wave with dip on forehead, waving for a center part, short center parting with bangs, wave for a high part, center parting wave for high forehead,
waving and curling for a bob, horseshoe wave with bang, wave for cross parting coiffure, wave for a short low parting, waved
evening hairdo, side wave arrangement, wave for a bob effect, and evening hairstyle with waved wathe.
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Big Hair
A trip through the years when big was king. As women
and men worldwide worked to improve their standard of living, they stumbled onto some of mankind's most miraculous inventions: spray, mousse, gel,
crimping irons, and then the perm. With those tools, people anywhere found themselves able to coax their lifeless, lank hair toward
glorious new heights. The age of big hair began.
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The Mullet - Hairstyle of the Gods
The mullet is a hairstyle in which the hair is cut short at the front and coupled with long hair at the back. While being very popular in the eighties,
entering the zeitgeist and becoming the haircut to have, it is now in decline. The author examines all areas of the mullet phenomenon.
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Hairstyles and Fashion - A Hairdresser's History of Paris, 1910-1920
This book contains articles written by the Paris hairdresser Emile Long from December 1910 till December 1920 for an
English professional journal. His goal was to keep English hairstylists informed about the developments in the world of hairstyling and
fashion in France.
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